Nokia USA has the Nokia 770 back in stock and is currently offerring free shipping, for $359.99.
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Archive for February, 2006
At last! After weeks of waiting, Eduardo de Barros Lima announces that Renato Araujo has finally released a newer version of Rhythmbox. This version now has DAAP working, which lets your Nokia 770 stream MP3s from iTunes from a different computer in the network.
Note: to activate DAAP sharing on the Nokia 770, you need to start the mDNSReponder service in Xterm:
$cd /var/lib/install/usr/bin/
$./mDNSResponder
Download Rhythmbox here.
Eduardo de Barros Lima has announced Gnumeric 1.6.2 for the Nokia 770. Since this is still on beta, he warns to not minimize the Gnumeric window since he still cannot find a solution to show the application icon in Maemo.
Download Gnumeric 1.6.2 here. Make sure to also install its dependency - libgnomeprintui. Read more about Gnumeric here. The 1.6.2 release notes are here.
Ran across this at the Opera site:
“Opera for Devices is a complete suite of Internet technologies for electronic devices, with innovative and powerful features that seamlessly adapt the Internet experience to suit varying screen sizes and input devices. In addition to being a full Internet browser, Opera is an execution environment for Web applications and dynamic user interfaces based on interoperable open Web technologies such as AJAX.
“Opera for Devices is currently being shipped in devices from NDS, Amino, Archos, Nokia….”
Since the blurb goes on to say that Nokia’s use of Opera for Devices is in addition to the company’s use of Opera on mobile phones, it got me thinking: Is Opera for Devices the version that’s running on the Nokia 770? Edited to add: Well the picture to the left answers everything.
The reason I wonder is that Opera for Devices has an SDK available for developers. Surely from that we non-Nokians/non-Operians might learn something about improving Opera’s, um, friendliness. Maybe a way to add a plug-in that worked on the 770 could be brought forward or some features of the full Opera be restored.
As it is, like some others, I’d love to see more full-Opera features, as well as being to access its settings via a dialog rather than backdoor editing of the opera.ini file.
And I know where I’d start, too. Since we’re lacking a presentation app on the 770 for slideshows, we could really use the slide-by-slide display that Opera’s full-screen projection mode provides. Looks like a slideshow, but the file is straight html. What about it?
Edited to add: gultig located this PDF brochure about Opera for Devices that shows the Nokia 770 on its front page — yes, that’s it shown above. Looks like this shot in the dark hit the mark. But now, can we use this information somehow?
